Acute care??

I have been confused by what exactly entails "acute care" versus non-acute in relation to doing transcription work. In the past I have been led to believe that anything from a hospital is acute. That includes anything that is on a hospital account?
Please help me clarify.

Follow Ups:

• I, too, was told that acute = hospital. Clinic is not acute. - that's what I heard, too 20:45:34 05/27/05 (0)
• acute care - scs 20:39:53 05/27/05 (1)
  • I am a newbie and I do acute care work. It can be very frustrating sometimes, - SM 23:39:05 05/27/05 (0)
• If you can type acute care, it basically means that you are trained to type in - all of the specialtites. nm 19:17:36 05/27/05 (0)